Moth stories have the power to bring you into a world that is often not your own and leave you wishing that you could live in that world

Just a little bit longer since 1997 the moth has shared more than 50,000 stories with audiences around the world through shows

Workshops and on the moth podcast and the moth radio hour once the curtains have closed the rooms emptied and the voice is quieted

It's the stories still ringing in our ears that whisper over and over

We are all of us more alike than we are different

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Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm John Good your host for this week

Our families leave their mark on us in interesting ways

I literally still have a scar on my knee from wrestling with my brother. Thank you, Duane

I remember my mother saying I believe in you when I told her I was leaving corporate America to pursue the arts

And I can still feel my father's hand in mine as he lay in bed fighting cancer

Our families by word deed and example try to teach us what to do and what not to do

We take the best throw away the rest and hopefully in the end we're all the better for it

This week we're continuing our countdown of each of the moths 25 years with stories from 2021

All about family and their indelible mark our first storyteller this week is Tia Valeria

Now this was 2021 so Tia told this at a virtual slam where the theme of the night was played again

Here's Tia live virtually at the moth

betrayal

It was 1999 my senior year in high school

Spring it's from in Portland, Oregon and I was on my way to prom

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